{"id":4985,"count":1,"description":"Oak Beach is a small community located on the eastern end of Jones Beach Island, a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great South Bay of Long Island. The community is part of the Town of Babylon in Suffolk County, New York. The eastern part, the Oak Island Beach Association, is gated whereas the western part is not. The census considers it part of Gilgo-Oak Beach-Captree, New York.\nOak Beach has been inhabited since at least the early 1900s, when a U.S. Coast Guard lifesaving station was located there, though it could not be reached overland at that time. Prior to that, marsh bird hunters had kept shacks in the area. Ferry access from Babylon enabled cottages to be built, and made more accessible by car after construction of Ocean Parkway, it was largely a summer community until the completion of the Robert Moses Causeway in 1951, which allowed much faster travel from the main part of Long Island. It has gradually evolved since then to where most residents live there...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/oak-beach\/","name":"Oak Beach","slug":"oak-beach","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/4985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}